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She said: Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee, because it has now happened to me according to the custom of women. So his careful search was in vain.

And Jacob being angry, said in a chiding manner: For what fault of mine, and for what offence on my part hast thou so hotly pursued me,

So the presents went before him, but himself lodged that night in the camp.

And Jacob said: Do not so I beseech thee, but if I have found favour in thy eyes, receive a little present at my hands: for I have seen thy face, as if I should have seen the countenance of God: be gracious to me,

So Esau returned that day, the way that he came, to Seir.

One thing there is for which so great a good is deferred: We must circumcise every male among us, following the manner of the nation.

So they gave him all the strange gods they had, and the earrings which were in their ears: and he buried them under the turpentine tree, that is behind the city of Sichem.

So Rachel died, and was buried in the highway that leadeth to Ephrata, this is Bethlehem.

I am ready: he said to him: Go, and see if all things be well with thy brethren, and the cattle: and bring me word again what is doing. So being sent from the vale of Hebron, he came to Sichem:

And they devoured them, whose bodies were very beautiful and well conditioned. So Pharao awoke.

And we heard what afterwards the event of the thing proved to be so. For I was restored to my office: and he was hanged upon a gibbet.

So Pharao told what he had dreamed: Me thought I stood upon the bank of the river,

And behold, there followed these, other seven kine, so very ill favoured and lean, that I never saw the like in the land of Egypt:

After which shall follow other seven years of so great scarcity, that all the abundance before shall be forgotten: for the famine shall consume all the land,

And there was so great abundance of wheat, that it was equal to the sand of the sea, and the plenty exceeded measure.

So the ten brethren of Joseph went down, to buy corn in Egypt:

But they said: It is not so, my lord; but thy servants are come to buy food.

So he put them in prison three days.

And taking Simeon, and binding him in their presence, he commanded his servants to fill their sacks with wheat, and to put every man’s money again in their sacks, and to give them besides provisions for the way: and they did so.

Then Israel said to them: If it must needs be so, do what you will: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down presents to the man, a little balm, and honey, and storax, myrrh, turpentine, and almonds.